Famous Quotes | It is evident, from their method...

It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining. - David Hume
Attribution: David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish philosopher. The Natural History of Religion, sect. 12, p. 346, Green and Grose (1898).

Categories: Cats, Egypt, Gods, Philosopher

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